A hot afternoon at St Mary's mainly spent watering in the churchyard and sorting out the temperamental to allow the small pound to be filled with rainwater from the church roof. The shrubs watered included the bay bushes that GG planted a couple if weeks ago.

A pair of Catford #parkrun volunteering tasks - cone placing (set up) and 30 minute pacing plus the BlueSky post on the results.

My first ever shopping visits with GG were to Sainsbury’s in Forest Hill. Today’s trip for Mr P was different in that it involved walking up a monster hill to deliver it. He was pleased with the purchases though which I had gone through with him over the phone.

When Paul was sorting out his bag and litter picker he was asked ‘Are you a friend of Fred?’ Initially he was worried that it was a case of mistaken identity of a foreign agent but it became clear that Fred runs the Friends of Brookmill Park in Deptford rather than a spy network. The questioner thanked Paul for his litterpicking along the Ravensbourne, was impressed by the variety of activities that GoodGym is involved in and promised to pass his regards to Fred.

Meanwhile Adi enjoyed a beautiful cool morning in Sydenham’s Mayow Park - the culprit on much of the litter was beautifully caught in the act! But as always, the park was left pristine.

After bringing home Ms L’s washing from the laundrette, our conversations returned to holidays (that we’d started yesterday on the first part of the mission). She told me about a coach trip to the Netherlands when she stayed in Rotterdam and places she’d visited from there.

It was prompted by a piece in the lunchtime news, but the lovely Ms Y and. I talked about seagulls and them being after human food. I told her about a seagull following us into McDonalds in Inverness taking a quick look round and then standing by the door waiting to be let out.

As for the shop, it included the normal items on Ms Y’s including a visit to seagull heaven, Mr Chippy, for chicken and chips!